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Q What happens to the billions of atoms in our body when we die? asks Victor Correa A Put frankly, they end up all over the place. Once you die, the process/es of decomposition begin in which the vast array of molecules that make up your body,...

Vast amounts of hot water from household appliances, businesses and factories gurgle down the drain every day, wasting not only H2O but also another precious resource: heat energy. Not, however, in the Austrian town of Amstetten, where a pilot...

A mother in Indianapolis, Indiana is speaking out about gun safety after her 6-old-year accidentally shot herself with a loaded handgun. Ebony Parker said that her daughter, Aviana, found the loaded handgun in the back room of a relative’s...

Although measured and deliberate in his responses, there is one moment when the softly spoken Chuck Hull – known as the father of 3D printing – tells of his surprise about what exactly his creation was capable of achieving. In 1996, surgeons at...

By Bryan Cohen National Park Service rangers have suspended the search for a missing Seattle hiking enthusiast and author after finding the body of a woman in the search area around Mount Rainier, park officials told Reuters on Saturday. The...

This equation was published in the 1949 book The Mathematical Theory of Communication, co-written by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver. An elegant way to work out how efficient a code could be, it turned “information” from a vague...

Dr Ellen Stofan says that missions to the red planet are a priority of the US space agency – and that the best way to search for extraterrestrial life is by setting up a permanent presence. Interview by Nicola Davis Is NASA looking for...

As a teenager, Danelle Myer wanted nothing more than to leave her family’s farm in Iowa and become a big-city advertising executive. Now, the 42-year-old juggles orders for cabbage and deals with hail damage on her patch of land. After...

On a dusty patch of land off a highway in northern Iraq, Faisal watches his three-week-old son cry in the tent that is now his home. The temperature hovers around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and aid being distributed to those at the...

Over 1,000 Hungarians took part in some 160 Holocaust memorial events across Budapest on Saturday, the 70th anniversary of the forced relocation of Jews during World War II into “Yellow Star Houses”. After a city hall decree in 1944,...

Pope Francis is urging Christians to work together to abolish every form of torture, condemning the practice as a grave sin. Francis told the public in St. Peter’s Square Sunday he wanted to reiterate his “firm condemnation of every...

One hundred convicts armed with machetes wander through a vast prison without walls in one of the Philippines’ most beautiful islands, a unique approach to reforming criminals. Two token guards with shotguns slung on their shoulders relax...

Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday restarted its trouble-plagued water decontamination system for the first time in three months, the utility said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has been forced to repeatedly switch off...